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Originally Posted by Giccin
I think Autism is becoming more common. :/ Then again the rate and chances of a newborn getting this is becoming quite common now too.
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My personal opinion, based purely on unscientific observation, is its a little of both. When I think back when I was in elementary school and road the big yellow brontosaurus to class no one was tested for this, but I knew kids that probably were somewhere on the scale.
That said, based on what I've seen of my wife's case load (she is an OT in the school system where we live) the number of cases has increased over the years in the same general area/population.
It sort of reminds me of crime statistics. We keep better track these days so some of the growth is in reported crimes. For example, take murder rates. Yes its probably up, but do we really know what the murder rate was, say 120 years ago? How many people living in the Wild West just "disappeared" and no one really knows what happened?